Space News for Saturday, February 22, 2025

The Gist: Space News · Feb 22, 2025 · 8m

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) NASA awards Planetary Defense Space Telescope launch services contract – SatNews(00:59) SpaceX sends 23 Starlink smallsats soaring including 13 Direct to Cell – SatNews(01:27) Arianespace ‘postpones’ Ariane 6 launch of French CSO-3 with operations underway – SatNews(02:00) Forrester’s Digest: Airbus, Thales to merge satellite divisions? – SatNews(02:24) NASA’s PUNCH Mission to Revolutionize Our View of Solar Wind(02:56) Hubble Spies a Spiral That May Be Hiding an…